True crime stories & great mysteries
Mystery & True Crime Stories is a website about the most puzzling mysteries of the past, as well as controversial theories. Here you'll find the most puzzling crime mysteries, the greatest mysteries of history, some of the interesting controversial theories and unexplained phenomena. Of course, some of them might be hoaxes, some of them might have a trivial explanation, but it is always a fun to stumble upon a puzzle or mystery that still needs to be solved.
True crime stories
Black Dahlia Murder
The famous and still unsolved murder that took place in California - a young woman, aspiring to be an actress, was found dead on the empty lot in Los Angeles.
Lake Bodom murders
On June 5th, 1960, four Finnish teenagers were attacked by an unknown assailant as they were camping next to Lake Bodom in southern Finland. The attack left three of the teenagers dead...
Murder of Sir Jack Drummond
When distinguished British biochemist Sir Jack Drummond was found dead on the roadside in France, no one expected this case will gain international coverage and still, after 60 years...

All the Colours of the Dark by Chris Whitaker
As Patch is abducted from his hometown, his best friend devotes her days to finding him.
Great mysteries
Dyatlov Pass incident
Dyatlov Pass incident involves the mysterious deaths of 9 tourists in the northern Ural Mountains on the night of February 2, 1959. The incident happened at night and there were no...
Amityville horror house
An average house at the end of the road in Amityville proved to be a crime scene, where the whole DeFeo family was killed. Years later, the new inhabitants of the house had to ask for...
Beast of Gevaudan
Wolf-like creature (or creatures) that terrorized the French province of Gevaudan in the 18th century. Over 100 people were killed by the Beast of Gevaudan, but still, we have no idea...
Easter Island
Rapa Nui, the Easter Island, still hides many mysteries - from the origins of its inhabitants to rongorongo script and famous moai statues.
Controversial theories
Smolensk air crash
During a trip to annual ceremonies marking the anniversary of the Katyn Massacre (when during the World War II over 20,000 Polish officers, previously kept captive, were killed by NKVD...
9/11 attacks
Two planes full of passengers hit the twin towers of World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001, starting one of the most mysterious conspiracy theories in history. At 8:46 AM, five...
JFK assassination
American president John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot while visiting Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. The official version is that he was shot by a single, obviously insane, shooter...
Glenn Miller disappearance
Glenn Miller was one of the most recognizable band leaders in the swing era, his music is still admired today. At the peak of his career, he decided to join the World War 2 effort and...
Unexplained phenomena
UFO sightings
When we talk about UFO, we often forget that UFO stands for Unidentified Flying Object, which not necessarily means that those objects have to be made by humans or aliens - they just...
Amityville horror house
An average house at the end of the road in Amityville proved to be a crime scene, where the whole DeFeo family was killed. Years later, the new inhabitants of the house had to ask for...
High Rock event
In June 1966, four boys went to the top of High Rock (Wysoki Kamien) in Poland, where they wanted to see if the rumours of this place being haunted were truth. What happened to them...
Beast of Gevaudan
Wolf-like creature (or creatures) that terrorized the French province of Gevaudan in the 18th century. Over 100 people were killed by the Beast of Gevaudan, but still, we have no idea...
Crime and mystery movies
The Keeper of Lost Causes 2013
A police officer is sent to the archive section, where he is supposed to simply review the cold cases, but he just can’t help getting involved in one of them.
Unknown 2006
Five men wake up in a locked-down warehouse, not knowing who they are and how they got here. Slowly they reveal the parts of the mystery.
The Thomas Crown Affair 1999
Millionaire Thomas Crown, bored with his lifestyle, looks for new thrills and takes up perfect crime as the hobby.
Columbo 1968
Lieutenant Columbo of the Los Angeles Police Department is not an average detective - he looks scruffy, he drives a rusty old Peugeot and often takes his bored dog to the crime scenes.
